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Before the Start menu & Taskbar, the Windows 95 team tested this UI. They found users had trouble deciding what each button on the “Taskbar” (at this point, called the Tray) did. E.g. to search Help, do you go to Find or Help? 😵‍💫 Did they make the right call scrapping this? 👀

has anyone ever gotten any genuine help from dedicated help buttons in software? maybe i'm too zoomer brained and don't know what troubleshooting was like before the internet but no way they were ever useful enough to dedicate a whole os-wide button to them right